Such a need drove Marilyn Monroe to pose for that famous nude calendar (she was paid $50). A would-be actress, in need of money to buy food and pay rent, agreed to let a photographer snap nude pictures of her.A plump, pleasant-looking dancer named Margarita Carmen Cansino slimmed forty pounds off her overabundant frame, raised her hairline and dyed her hair from natural black to flaming red but it wasn’t until Miss Cansino posed kneeling on a bed in a sheer-sheer nightgown (a photo that appeared in LIFE and made her world-famous) that Rita Hayworth, sultry, sexy movie-star, was born.Anita Ekberg, “Miss Sweden,” in an overflowing sweater, failed to win immediate recognition as an actress and instead spent seven years in Hollywood posing for cheesecake pinups and modeling for nude art works in a desperate attempt to launch her acting career.Brigitte Bardot, goaded on by her then-husband Roger Vadim, reclined nude next to him under a bed sheet when he called a press conference to introduce the‘‘new star” to the world.An unknown starlet strives for her first “break” and is willing to undress completely to attract studio and public attention.

There are circumstances under which a woman strips off her clothes in public to allow nude pictures to be taken-and these circumstances can be understood, if not condoned: A superstar, more successful, more beautiful than ever, she nevertheless chose to expose her body off the screen, thereby subsequently permitting herself to be seen by the millions of men who read PLAYBOY. What is Central to our investigation, however, is that no one forced and no factors pressured the beautiful Miss Taylor into posing for McDowall. One can argue that producers, directors and scriptwriters persist in including such scenes in big-budget epics that studio heads insist their stars appear in them that the movie-going public demands to see them that no European showing of an American-produced film is successful without at least one episode in which a female star swims or bathes in the altogether. DeMille version, took a milk-bath on-screen).

Justification can be made for her nudity in the actual bathing scenes in “Cleopatra.” It can always be said that such naked and near-naked bathing scenes are part of the Hollywood “spectacle” tradition (Claudette Colbert, who played the Temptress of the Nile for the Cecil B. In short, stripping and posing for photos that appeared in the January issue of PLAYBOY Magazine. What makes a woman undress-altogether, completely-in public? What drives Elizabeth Taylor to take off her clothes and pose for breast-and-buttock-revealing still photographs? What term can we use to characterize Liz’ compulsion to bare herself to the camera (and to the world)? Is she “modern” or ”immoral,” is she “emancipated” or ’’exhibitionistic?” What we are solely concerned with, for the purposes of this investigation, is her stripping and posing nude for Roddy McDowall, her old-time friend and ”Cleopatra” co-star.

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